Eduardo Fellner

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Eduardo Fellner

Argentine Deputy from Jujuy Province
Incumbent
Assumed office 2007
Governor of Jujuy
In office 1998 – 2007
Lieutenant	Walter Barrionuevo
Preceded by	Carlos Ferraro
Succeeded by	Walter Barrionuevo

Born	1954
Political party	Justicialist Party

Eduardo Alfredo Fellner (born 1954) is an Argentine Justicialist Party (PJ) politician, currently President of the Argentine Chamber of Deputies and until 2007 governor of Jujuy Province.

Fellner became governor mid-term when Carlos Ferraro (who had also taken over mid-term just two years before) resigned in an institutional crisis. He was elected in 1999 and 2003.

Fellner became the national leader of the Justicialist Party in 2004, chairing its national council. However he resigned the same year in the fallout of a row between supporters of then President Néstor Kirchner, to whom Fellner was loyal, and provincial party leaders.

Fellner attempted to change the provincial constitution ahead of the 2007 election so that he could stand for re-election for a third full term [1]. In the end, he stood for election as a National Deputy and was sworn into office in December 2007. He was elected as President of the Chamber, only the second ever not to be from Buenos Aires Province.

Fellner's sister, Liliana Fellner, is a Senator for Jujuy.